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Next steps for Gutenberg testing

There was an open Gutenberg testing chat held on Wednesday, you can find out more about this and catch the video and notes here. There were a few outcomes from this and some next steps.

Firstly, what has happened so far?

Organised testing for Gutenberg has been in the form of 2 unmoderated usability tests. You can find out more about those here. These were a freeform and a task based test.

The test so far worked whilst Gutenberg was in early stages. However, it was limited in user type and response. The goal now is to scale up testing and make sure there are usability tests with each user type defined and prioritized, as well as non-WordPress users.

What are we going to do now?

In the group chat it was decided, the next step was to define user types, goals for testing, and the tasks for testing with each of the various user types defined.

To begin this, let’s use a collaborative spreadsheet to gather ideas. The scope of what we’re going to add is:

User types: In this tab let’s braindump a list of user types. For a starting point, the ones outlined in Matt’s post here have been added. What more should we add? Then let’s define:

Goals: What are the main goals of this user type? What do they want to achieve with an online publishing process?

Notes: Do you have anything else you think needs noting about this user type?

Tasks: In this tab the focus is tasks that people will do with Gutenberg. What can be broken down into tasks and test?

Add your thoughts on the above to the existing spreadsheet over the course of this week. If it’s easier you can leave a comment on this post with your thoughts and it will get added to the spreadsheet. Do you have some past research you can link to help add to this?

Are you a member of an agency, University, or are you in contact with a user type that can help the project reach? If so, let us know in the comments below, saying what you are able to help with for testing outreach.

Once the week is up, we can have a meeting again in #core-flow in wordpress.org Slack (time to be announced). We will go over the types and look at how we can begin testing.

If there is anything else you think should be considering in this testing focus, please let add a comment.

Get involved!

If you’d like to be involved in helping test Gutenberg, please leave a comment below and you can be added to the list of amazing people helping test this project.